HUNDRED MILES AWAY

Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12

HUNDRED MILES AWAY

WATCHING CRICKET MATCHES MARVELS OF TELEVISION. Zone television, which was demonstrated for tho first time in London on December 30, makes its possible for an audience in a theatre to watch a cricket match being played 100 miles away or the progress of the Lord Mayor’s banquet. Hitherto not more than one stationary figure has been flashed .through space hut at this demonstration eight moving figures were seen on a screen.

A group of people in a room in tho laboratory of the Baird Television Company in London, saw the full-size figure of Strudwick, tho England and Surrey cricketer, appear on a screen. He stood in front of wickets and made imaginary strokes with his bat, which tho audience in another room could see quite clearly. Then eight figures appeared on the screen. “ It is intended to develop this new apparatus for use in theatres and cinemas, as apart from home_ television,” Mr John L. Baird, the inventor of television, said in an interview, ‘‘ for where places of public entertainment aro concerned there is no objection to using telephonic wires between the central studio and the theatres. “The chief difficulty in transmitting large images by television is finding sufficient space in tho ether. Where telephone lines arc available this restriction can be overcome by using pairs of lines, and that is ;hc new_ apparatus we have developed working on this zone principle. “ Full-size scenes can bo transmitted. There is no limit to the iimount of detail, so that there is nothing to prevent this system showing views equal in size and detail to the cinematograph.”